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MAY 2019

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May 13
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Notes From Friends

Hospice of the Valleys serves hundreds of patients each and every year. We honor them by sharing their stores. They remind us every day of the meaning and purpose in our work and that human connection is at the heart of the hospice experience

The following are notes Hospice of the Valleys has received from the families of patients that we have been privileged to provide hospice care.

"Thank you for all of your assistance and kindness during such a difficult time. I honestly can't say thank you enough!"

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Happy Nurses Week

By: Dr. Lynn Euzenas

Director of Spiritual Care & Bereavement Services

Dr. Lynn Euzenas - Hospice of the ValleysDear Friends:

This week is National Nurses Week. We at Hospice of the Valleys celebrate our marvelous nurses this week, from May 5th to May 12th, the birthday of the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale. It was late last week when our RN Case Manager Supervisor Erica came by my office with a framed piece of art beneath her arm. When she laid it down on the table for us to see, a flood of memories came forth. Seven years ago, in 2012, when this painting entitled the "Selfless Servant" was created, we both had come to know a gifted and very humble Christian artist. This artist did not seek any thanks or notoriety, but only to provide a gift of inspiration, grace, and memory to those walking the hospice journey. She wished to remain anonymous so as not to taint the sense of her art coming as a direct gift from God to the recipient.

So in this special time of Nurses Week, and with our first bereavement department butterfly release on the horizon, I have permission to share with you Rachael Johnson's beautiful work "Selfless Servant," and her inscription to hospice nurses:

Created with pastels ground to powder and painted with a brush on a 24X18 charcoal tan card stock. (MARCH 2012)

This piece is dedicated to all Hospice Nurses who share their compassion, love, and spirit for patients in their final days of life.

The butterflies represent the patients they meet and must one day let go.

Thank you to the Nurses who silently cry. Thank you for wearing the white scrubs and remain strong when a family is crumbling.

And a BIG Thank you for to all of those nurses holding me, as well, when my own butterfly had to leave. You are all angels.

Thank you, Rachael, for being so willing a vessel to bring forth this healing image to hospice nurses everywhere.

Lynn Euzenas

Mother Knows Best ...

Dr. Leslee B. Cochrane

Executive Medical Director

Dr. Leslee Cochrane - Hospice of the ValleysDid you know that there is a strong historical connection between the celebration of Mother's Day and The Battle Hymn of the Republic? Julia Ward was born in 1819 in Boston and later married Samuel Gridley Howe who was active in the abolition movement and other reforms. She is perhaps most well known for penning the lyrics to the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" in November of 1861, a few months after the start of the American Civil War. Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic" was initially published in the February 1862 edition of The Atlantic Monthly and since that time has been recognized as one of the most popular American Patriotic songs.

In 1870 following the carnage of the Civil War, historians credit the first American celebration of Mother's Day as being initiated by the publication of Julia Ward Howe's Mother's Day Proclamation. In her Proclamation, Howe charged Mothers throughout the world to unite in a call for peace and the celebration of motherhood. The Howe celebration was initially observed on June 2nd; but never became widely adopted beyond a handful of larger cities. Several years later, building on Howe's Mother's Day proclamation, a West Virginia women's group led by Anna Reeves Jarvis vegan to celebrate an annual Mother's Friendship Day, in an attempt to heal some of the deep division bought about as a result of the Civil War. Following the death of Anna Reeves Jarvis, her daughter asked the superintendent of St. Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia to honor the legacy of her mother with a Mother's Day Celebration and on May 10th, 1908, the first official Mother's Day celebration took place. From that point the tradition spread and in 1912, West Virginia became the first state to officially recognize Mother's Day. President Woodrow Wilson later signed a proclamation in 1914 naming the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day.

On May 12th this year we will celebrate Mother's Day which also coincides with the celebration of National Nurses Week in honor of the birthday of Florence Nightingale who is recognized as the founder of the modern nursing movement. We can all learn a great deal from the legacy of Florence Nightingale and the founders of the Mother's Day Celebration. In responses to the ravages of the Crimean war in 1854 and the Civil War in 1861, these incredible women led a movement to call for peace and to attend to the physical spiritual and emotional needs of those devastated by the ravages of war. Hospice of the Valleys celebrates their legacy this Mother's Day and National Nurses Day as a time to reflect on the love and dedication of those who have devoted their lives in the service of others.

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Funds received wil help pay for free, public grief suppor groups, medication delivery services, and longer patient visits.
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French Crêpe Breton
with Applewood Smoked Pulled Pork,
Guinness Caramelized Onion, Gruyère Cheese & Brandy Apples
Bay Leaf & Fennel Sauce; Frisée Salad
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